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Two amazing events occurred at almost the same time and radically changed the future for humankind. In and around the Fertile Crescent in Western Asia and other equally promising edens, agriculture was developed . In the eastern steppes and the southern deserts animal husbandry was perfected. These two events introduced food surplus into the lives of humans for the first time.

With this surplus (none dared call it capital) an element of control of future events came within the grasp of humans. No longer totally subject to the vagaries of the hunt or caprices of nature, these Late Bronze age stalwarts yearned to leap forward after a million years of restraint. Great possibilities were presented them for trade, for travel, for smiting and smoting of rivals and nothing could hold them back

Nothing, that is, except human biology of the female kind. The distaff members were proud of accomplishing, mainly through their efforts, the bountiful crops that filled the newly built granaries that had sprung up all about them. They noticed a tendency for males to be impatient now of needs that are mammalian in nature and part of reality. The high flying gents were annoyed that the ladies still had a certain something that kept the guys from lording it over them and all of creation. Why, oh why, must we go to them for our needs and let them make decisions.

So a relationship that had been fair and equal between the sexes since they labored together to evolve in the wilderness and then learn to build permanent settlements was compromised. Males were to be lord and master and females lesser. The species long equal partnership was thereby dissolved and females were to become chattel. The battle was on and the outcome soon settled and the gender relationship remains to this day a Stockholm Syndrome in which a captive, in time, comes to be fond of and even love her captor.

The fundamental natural relationship which exists between the sexes in all of animal life is now missing in action in humankind. The balance, harmony and respect of gender differences is gone from us. From that fateful time until now, through these thousands of years of human existence, all major decisions affecting humankind, including life and death matters, are decided by males. Even the simple courtesy of inclusion of females for the appearance of equality is not deemed necessary. The notion of changing this imbalance rarely reaches the level of serious discussion in male circles of influence. So…

The tale ends here.

{Narrative to be resumed when the species, by default, nears extinction.}